The Faculty of Social Theology and Christian Culture provides a Postgraduate Programme leading to a Master’s Degree
Programme director: Vasileios Tsigkos
Secretariat: Euterpi Vafeiadou
T: +30 2310 996683
M: evafeia@past.auth.gr
W: https://msc-stheo.web.auth.gr/
The Programme is divided in three academic fields:
a) Bible, Patristics, Hagiology and Religious studies
b) History, Doctrine, Philosophy and Archaeology
c) Applied Theology
Aim
The aim of the Postgraduate Programme of Orthodox Theology and Christian Culture is to provide high quality education in the academic field of Orthodox Theology and Christian Culture research, in the form that it has taken all over the Christian world. More specifically, the aim of the Programme is to nurture academic theological research and promote its specialization fields, so that it corresponds to the educational, social and church needs.Analytically the Postgraduate Programme aims at:
a) training new scholars so as to be fully competent in dealing with theological, church and social issues, in producing academic work regarding all of the above mentioned issues as well as in providing church and educational services and institutions with scholarly support within the context of orthodox life and tradition,
b) producing specialized theologians with skills and competences, knowledge and experience so that they are fully capable of offering high quality work in social institutions, in public secondary education and in positions of education instructors and other church executives, and finally in covering spiritual and pastoral needs in the Orthodox Church of Greece or in other Autocephalus Churches,
c) enhancing and spreading orthodox theological studies not only in Greece but also abroad, and especially promoting orthodox theology and Greek civilization in the States through a cooperation with the Holly Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Boston, within an established cooperation framework,
d) developing special research and critical skills which are required for the PhD level of studies and for research activities in the academic domains of corresponding disciplines that focus on the Theology of the Orthodox Church, in the form of texts, practice as well as institutional and cultural production.